Thursday, January 31, 2008

Lotus Notes 8.0 + Ubuntu

Note: Lotus Notes is currently unsupported in Ubuntu, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work. Here's my struggles with Ubuntu 7.10.

The install process is pretty straight forward. Only issues I had were the GUI refresh, some permissions, and some symbolic links.

If you have an issue with blank GUI, no GUI, or unclickable GUI, try changing your window manager. Not sure if this is caused by Compiz or not, so turning off desktop effects may also have the same effect.

To fix this, I did the following:

sudo apt-get install kwinkwin --replace

Then I could read and click like normal.

I took defaults, but once installed, I couldn't execute lnotes, so I did: